Family Doctors in Charlottesville, VA

welcome Sandra, C'ville is a great place to live. In terms of holistic practitioners i would recommend Dr. David Brents who is a holistic chiropractor and has so many other offerings as well including energy work, cranial sacral, etc.. In terms of acupuncturists i really like Sarabeth Whedbee. Cindy Janechild is a former nurse practitioner and now practices cranial sacral work, Zero balancing, etc... She is perhaps my favourite holistic practitioner in the area. In terms of doctors, you may want to check out the following: http://www.healthyvim.org/practitioners.html

Jennifer AndDallas Smith, that was very much my experience as well. We ended up settling on Ashley Rennick. I was sort of lightly bullied by Dr Gelburd about the whooping cough vaccine (to which we have a documented family history of reactions so that was our biggest no go in terms of vaccines) and we ended up with Ashley for the next appointment. She's been amazing and very informative, accommodating, and no pressure about it and I think she would be completely accepting of either viewpoint.

I recommend Downtown Family Healthcare - great practice and I have found all of them to be very open to alternative ideas - they will even suggest herbal or homeopathic solutions.

Yes to Downtown Family Health for sure! All the Drs and Nurse Practicioners there are wonderful. Virginia Integrative Medicine is amazing, but they are not general practicioners, and you have to pay them upfront, then submit insurance yourself. I go to Megan Custer of Ivy Commons Family Chiropractic (she works with all ages) with associated Zero Balance/Massage by Becky Graves.

We really like Downtown Family also but some of the drs have different opinions than others about vaccines. They suggest a delayed schedule but I had a friend who was not received well for not vaxing. One dr wanted my youngest to be up to date on his shots by two but another isn't worried about it at all, so you kind of need to shop around at the practice, I think. All that I have visited do suggest homeopathic first though and they even offer cranio-sacral massages in their office. B/c of that my insurance covered it after my concussion. Another option is Prax Chiropractic.

Love, love Albemarle Square Family Health. I see Dr. Campbell but Dr. Shaw and Dr. Neihaus are good too.

Yes. We do not do the typical vaccine schedule with our 2 year old. We do them. Just spread them out. Not sure how they would react to no vaccines at all but they are very open minded in general. They are a standard medical practice but have been v ery open to natural meds. Dr. Campbell studied with Andrew Weil (a natural health practitioner) after completing her medical degree. They block out huge chunks of time for each patient and come in and literally chat with you about your life and health concerns. They have drop in hours every afternoon. They are just AMAZING. You may have to get on a waiting list to become patients but it is well worth it. Don't see Dr. MacFarland, he is more traditional meds and heavy in antibiotics. Everyone else is fabulous.

The best pediatrician is Dr. Smyth at Palmyra Medical Associates.

I recommend Dr. Phyllis Montellese@Spring Creek Family Medicine.

Dr. Nolte at palmyra family medicine

Vicki and Peter Generelly.

Dr. Mark Niehaus......he is awesome., very detailed and so patience with children and adults. His number is 978-2126.

I see Dr Howard at Palmyra medical assoc. For Victoria I use Dr Armengol at Pediatric Assoc in town. I cant say enough about them, plus they have weekend hours and are open late, and they have a nurse that you can talk to about the little one that does more then tell you "just bring her in".

Dr. Niehaus.

Love the doctors at Pediatric Associates of C'ville.

http://cvillesmiles.com/team.html. Dr Neel is wonderful..... Loves working with entire families.

I've heard GREAT things about Dr. Bickers...very kind, patient, and competent. His wife is in a lot of my Pilates classes and she is so sweet too.:)

Following. We were with Dr Starkey for a while and now that he's semi-retired I'm not feeling that great about the dentist that took over the practice... We did Aesthetic Dentistry before kids and I had a good dentist there but she moved away and we switched practices.

Margarita Figueroa, he's fully retired (Starkey) as of late June.